HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore.
Thursday, Aticust 13, 1950
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A MASS QF SEGREGATIONISTS charge up state capitol steps at Little. Rock, Arkansas,
August 12, to get Gov, Orval E. Faubus to come out and speak. The crowd was dotted with
posters reading "Governor Faubus save our Christian America," The'governor came out
a few minutes later and spoke to the estimated 1,000 persons.' AP Wirephoto
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CITY BRIEFS
Stone Found
In Monument
Oregon Weather
By THE ASSOCIATED I'ICESS
U hours la 4:30 a. m. Thursday
Max. .Min. Prrp
A LITTLE ROCK POLICEMAN with a choke hold on an un
identified spectator at Little Rock's Central High School,
pushes him toward a paddy wagon just after a riot broke
out at the school grounds. Several persons were loaded into
the wagon and taken to the police station. It was the first
day of school in Little Rock. AP Wirephoto
State Secretary Herter
Traces Ancestry To 1686
Rt'brkah Officers are all asked
to be present on Tuesday. August
18, at 7:30 p.m. at the lOOF Hall
for practice (or the president's vis
it.
Oldtime Dunce at the K.C. Hall,
Saturday, August 15 from 9 p.m.
to 1 a.m. Music by the Smoothies.
Manzanita Chapter O.E.S., will
have a pot luck picnic at Veterans
Memorial Park Friday, August 14.
at 6 p.m. Please bring table serv
ice. Coffee and ice cream will be
furnished.
Returned Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Bcardslcy, 2760 Derby Street, have
returned from "a three months'
trip to New York and other points
of interest. They have been sight
seeing and visiting relatives.
At Lake Mr. and Mrs. Bud
Simmons and family of Sparks,
Nevada, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Don Bridge of Klamath Falls
for a week at Lake of the Woods
Rummage Sale Sweet Adelines,
Inc. will hold its annual rummage
sale at Clyde's Towing Service,
734 Klamath, Saturday, August 15.
Doors open at 8 a.m.
W ASHINGTON I API What
ihey found in the Washington
Monument is embarrassing both
he housekeeping and historical
branches of the government.
It's a 2io-pound block of mar
ble. As big as a suitcase, it has
lain unnoticed in a corner (of a
tair well for something like 80
years. Workmen lound it when
hey installed a new elevator sev
eral months ago.
The big stone is apparently one
of 189 sent from different states,
countries and societies when the
monument was being built during
the last century the job took 3ti
years, being finished in 1884.
This one is inscribed "Car
thage," and sure enough, one of
the gift stones was from the ruins
of ancient Carthage-rdonatcd by
an individual. Only trouble is it
was supposed to have been built
into the monument with the other
1KH, and guide books list it there.
Why it wasn't is something Ed
mund J. Fitzgerald, superintend
ent and historian of the monu
ment can only guess. He thinks
it probably just got lost during
the two decades between 1860 and
1630 when no work was done on
the monument.
What's he going to do with it
now? He doesn't have the answer
to that, either.
Astoria
Baker
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Eugene
Lakevicw
Mcdtord
Newport
North Bend
Pendleton
Portland Airport
Redmond
Itoseburg
Salem
The Dalles
The peak of Capulin Mountain
northeastern New Mexico, is said
be one of the most perfect
oleanic peaks in the world.
-BURGFELDEN, Germany W
Most of the 200 farmers in this
mountain hamlet are related to
United States Secretary of State
Christian A. Hertcr. ,
.'It was here, back in 1260, that
the first recorded Hertcr lived and
where several hundred years later
the new secretary of state's Ger
man great-grandfather was born.
'One out of 10 farmers here is a
born Herter, and quite a number
bear a striking resemblance to the
secretary.
.Take towering white-haired
Hermann Herter. At first glance,
the two faces seem almost iden
tical. Same wrinkled forehead and
strong-set jaws. Same features and
blue eyes, whether they look at
you from under the battered farm
er's hat or the televised Geneva
(Conference scene. .
'Seven centuries have built a
strong family spirit. Although the
Herter clan has scattered all over
EUrope and the Americas, the
Herters of Burgfeldcn still regard
ajl Herters as their distant cousins.
When Christian A. was named
secretary of state, Burgfelden took
the news in its stride.
jiSaid namesake Christian Herter,
alderman of the local Herters:
yell, well, what do you say. So
hi became a minister. He'll make
odt all right. After all, he is one
ol us."
;Burgfelden lies 2,800 feet high
oo the Swabian Alp at the end of
ff winding mountain road.
jAn industrious Protestant com
munity but not nearly as pros
perous as the villages of the rich
lQwer regions it was just a clut
ter of ramshackle houses some
generations ago. Life was endless
toil and sometimes a bare escape
from starvation. The drought-ridden
soil was never fertile enough
to feed more than an average of
2$0 people.
Water was always scarce and
Brgfelden's old-timers remember
queuing up for rainwater at the
Village's only water hole or shov
eling snow up the roofs of their
hfluses to let the spring sun turn
it-'into drinkable water. Wheat was
virtually unknown and bread was
. made of peas and lentels.
Eventually, more 'and more
Burgfeldeners, among them many
afHerter, dropped out of sight and
went to the lowlands of Wuertem
brg, to Saxony, the Rhincland and
Alsace. Others scattered as far as
Romania, P o l a n d, Switzerland,
Uruguay, and the United States
iiere they found a living in Iowa,
Illinois and Virginia.
JBurgfelden's history goes back
to the Sixth Century and a, settle
rtjent ruled by fierce Germanic
tHbal chiefs. In the age-stained
rjjrchment registers of the Eighth
Gentury Romanesque church, the
iJSme Herter first appears in
the flourished handwriting of 1260.
The name originated either in
lirte.-' German for "Herdsman,"
4 "Hart," an ancient German
a!ect word for mountain forest.
tChrlstlan A. Herter s ancestry
Barthle (Bartholomew) Haerdter,
honorable bailiff of Burgfelden,
died at the age of 95. Christian
Herter, the great-grandfather of
the secretary, was born in 1807,
the son of Ludwig Herter, a farm
er and weaver who lived in the
village of Pfeffingen near Burgfel
den. '.'' (', '
When he was 23, this enterpris
ing young Christian left the hills
to make a better living as a cab
inet maker in the town of
Stuttgart. His son, Christian Aug
ust Ludwig, the grandfather of the
secretary, wandered to Paris and
n 1895 decided to find out what
America had in store for him.
The secretary of state was born
in Paris on March 28, 1895, while
his parents were art students.
Genealogy has become a hobby
with the Herters. Balduin, who in
herited the same lively interests
in fine arts that animated Chris
tian A. to study architecture be
fore going into politics, is forever
combing old documents and church
registers to find new clues.
Johann Georg Hertcr has spent
many of his 76 years pondering
over books to trace the meander
ing ancestral lines of his clan
Occupied with their genealogical
studies, the Herters never were
touched by world politics. Now, it's
different.
In every newspaper account of
the Geneva Conference, they read
their name. They feel that some
thing should be done about it.
"Why," suggested Hermann Her
ter, "if Christian Archibald is in
Geneva these days, he might as
well come o"er to Burgfelden and
meet the family. It's time we get
Midland Grange will have a
card party at the Midland Grange
Hall Saturday, August 15. at 8
p.m. Public is invited. Refresh
ments will be served.
Rummage Sale Licensed Prac
tical Nurses will have a rummage
sale in the Pelican Theater build
ing Friday, August 21., Anyone
wishing to donate rummage, please
call TU 2-2827.
FIRM ROBBED
PORTLAND (AP) - Two men
entered the Commercial Indus
trial Finance Corp. on Sandy
Boulevard in Portland with drawn
guns Wednesday and escaped with
$500.
The two took wallets from two
employes and one customer, rifled
money drawers and left the three
bound with taper
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Western Oregon Fair through
Friday with gradually warming
trend. A little early morning log
along coast. Low tonight 48-58.
high in interior Friday 85-95. along
coast 68-78. Winds along Southern
Oregon coast north to northwest.
increasing during afternoon to 30
miles an hour with stronger gusts;
winds on northern Oregon coast
northerly 10-20 miles an hour.
Eastern Oregon Fair and a
little warmer through Friday. Low
tonight 45-55 except a few degrees
cooler in high valleys; high Fri
day 80-83.
Northern Oregon Beaches
Generally fair through Friday ex
cept morning log or patchy fog
Bar winds northwesterly 10-20
miles an hour. Temperature range
48-70.
Baker and Vicinity Fair and
warmer through Friday. Low to-
night 38-44: high Friday 80-85.
Grants Pass and Vicinity Fair
and warmer through Friday. Low
tonight 53-58: high Friday 88-93.
Loggers lire weather Fire
danger high inland, increasing
all areas of Oregon including the
coast Friday with warming and
drying trend.
POLIO VICTIM
PORTLAND (AP) An autop
sy Wednesday was ordered per
formed on the body of a man be
lieved to have died of polio.
Multnomah County coroner's dep
uties issued the order when At
illo Dare, 33. of Newberg died
four hours after being admitted
to a Portland hospital. He was ill
only a short time at home before
coming to the hospital, said hos
pital authorities.
Mamie In Denver
As Mother Ailing
DENVER (AP) Mrs. Mamie
Eisenhower arrived in Denver to
day and went directly to the bed
side of her ailing mother, Mrs.
Elivera Doud.
A Secret Service man said there
was no particular change in the
81-year-old Airs. Doud's condition.
Mrs. Eisenhower let! Washing
ton by train Tuesday night.
In Gettysburg, acting White
House press secretary Wayne
Hawks said Mrs. Doud's health
had been bad for quite some time.
GOVERNOR OUT OF SHAPE
COLUMBUS, Ohio (UP1) -
Ohio's jocular five-foot five 200-
pound Gov. Michael V. DiSalle
says his doctor pronounced him
in perfect condition but not in
perfect shape.
Coast Probe
Sill Okayed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A bill which Sen. Warren G.
Magnuson iD-Wash) said would
enable the United States to "know
as much about our offshore waters
as the Russians" was approved
Wednesday by the Senate Inter
state and Foreign Commerce
Committee.
The bill, co-sponsored by Mag
nuson, chairman of the committee,
would permit the Coast and Geo
detic Survey to conduct oceano
graphic research beyond the con
tinental .shelf or the 2.000 I at horn
line, which varies from 3 to 150
miles offshore.
"The Russians have charted our
coasts and 1 think it is possible
they have information about them
which we don't because of the
present limitation," Magnuson
said in a telegram to the Asso
ciated Press at Seattle.
He said the measure would al
low research which could deter
mine indentations along both the
East and West Coasts where ene
my submarines might lurk.
It would also allow research to
determine shifts in the Japanese
current and gulf stream and
changes in ocean temperatures
which affect fisheries migrations,
Magnuson said.
He said charts of the ocean bot
tom would be perfected for the
benefit and safety of commerce
and navigation.
California Weather
United Press International
San Francisco Bay Area: Fair
through Friday: high today San
Francisco 72, Oakland 80, San Ma
teo 82. San Rafael 88: low to.
night 54-62; westerly winds 15-30
in p h. afternoons and evenings.
Mt. Shasta-Siskiyou area: Fair
through Friday; warmer Friday.
Sacramento Valley: Fair
through Friday; high both days
94-104; low tonight 62-72; variable
winds 8-16 m.p.h.
Northwestern California: Fair
through Friday except night and
morning fog on coast in north;
cooler south portion today; warm
er north portion Friday; high to
day and low tonight Ukiah 92-58,
Santa Rosa 92-32, Napa 94-58; north
!o northwest winds 12-25 m.p.h.
near coast locally reaching 30
m.p.h. afternoons.
BOARD MEMBER
PORTLAND (AP) - Portland
General Electric Co. Tuesday an
nounced the election of Milo K.
Mclver to its board of directors.
Mclver is president of the Com
merce Investment Co. here.
The
Utah
Mormon
"Desert."
founders called
Spencer's
Clearance
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acquainted. So why not invite
him?"
Goorl idea. Let's go ahead,"
came the answer from the Bcv
Hans Dilger, who is Burgfelden's
expert on American affairs.
Dilger spent a year as an ex
change student at the Augustana
Lutheran Seminary at Rock Is
land, III., and as an assistant pas
tor of the Eau Claire, Wis., First
Lutheran Church.
"Let's invite Christian and let's
do it while he is still in Europe,'
nodded Alderman Christian Her
ter.
So with Burgfelden's Mayor
Hermann Schatz, Pastor Dilger
has drafted a letter of invitation
to U.S. Secretary of State and
Mrs. Herter, Geneva, Switzerland,
Palais Dcs Nations.
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